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Death by design : capital punishment as social psychological system / Craig Haney.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haney, Craig, author.
- Series:
- American Psychology-Law Society series.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- American psychology-law society series
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capital punishment--United States.
- Capital punishment.
- Capital punishment--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- Discrimination in capital punishment--United States.
- Discrimination in capital punishment.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (350 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Because of the emotive nature of the subject, it is difficult to discuss the death penalty honestly. Craig Haney presents data collected over 25 years of research to shed light, in a scientific manner, on the social and psychological realities behind the punishment.
- Contents:
- Series Foreword; Contents; 1 Blinded by the Death Penalty: The Supreme Court and the Social Realities of Capital Punishment; 2 Frameworks of Misunderstanding: Capital Punishment and the American Media; 3 Constructing Capital Crimes and Defendants: Death Penalty Case-Specific Biases and Their Effects; 4 The Fragile Consensus: Public Opinion and Death Penalty Policy; 5 A Tribunal Organized to Convict and Execute? On the Nature of Jury Selection in Capital Cases; 6 Preparing for the Death Penalty in Advance of Trial: Process Effects in Death-Qualifying Capital Juries
- 7 Structural Aggravation: Moral Disengagement in the Capital Trial Process 8 Misguided Discretion: Instructional Incomprehension in the System of Death Sentencing; 9 Condemning the Other: Race, Mitigation, and the "Empathic Divide"; 10 No Longer Tinkering With the Machinery of Death: Proposals for Systemic Reform; Concluding Thoughts: Death Is Different; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Formerly CIP.
- Previously issued in print: 2005.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-322) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-029294-6
- 0-19-773517-7
- 1-280-42857-0
- 0-19-804022-9
- 1-60256-562-7
- OCLC:
- 191038458
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